Fear and mystery: dangerous and scary places where people disappear without a trace

We hear many random stories of people and things going missing, but when a certain place tends to be the recurring scene of suspicious disappearances, it’s weird and even scary about those places. Worse, these mysterious areas really exist, they are not the fruit of popular imagination.

In the gallery, discover grim regions and seas, where people and even large means of transport (like ships and planes) have disappeared without a trace. Many puzzles to this day have not been solved.

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Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle is the first story that comes to mind when we think of mysterious places. The region stretches from southern Florida to Puerto Rico and Bermuda.

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Bermuda Triangle

Bermuda has been the scene of multiple disappearances of ships and boats over the years. In 1918, the USS Cyclops, with 309 crew on board, disappeared from the map.

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Michigan Triangle

This region is located between the states of Michigan and Wisconsin, United States.

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Michigan Triangle

One of the most notorious disappearances in the area was the Northwest Airlines plane, which operated Flight 2501 in 1950. The plane was never found.

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Bennington triangle

Located in southwestern Vermont, United States, the Bennington Triangle recorded the disappearance of five people between 1945 and 1950.

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Bennington triangle

The most sinister case was the disappearance of a man driving a bus, who disappeared without anyone noticing.

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Nevada Triangle

The area is 25,000 square miles, encompassing both the desert and the highlands of Nevada. It is located near Area 51, the famous military base.

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Nevada Triangle

In 2007, famed aviator and adventurer Steve Fossett was piloting a small plane in the area before disappearing without a trace. It took 13 months for rescue teams to find the wreckage of the plane and Fossett’s remains.

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Sargasso Sea

Located in the Atlantic Ocean, the Sargasso Sea saw the mysterious disappearance of the Mary Celeste, a ship that would later become known as the Ghost Ship.

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Sargasso Sea

In 1872 the ship was found abandoned, but still loaded with provisions and fuel. To this day, no one knows what happened to the crew.

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Lake Superior, USA

Lake Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes (a series of lakes in North America stretching from the northern United States to southern Canada) and has been the site of numerous shipwrecks over the years.

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Lake Superior, USA

Over 200 ships sank in Lake Superior, many of which were never found or recovered.

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South Atlantic Anomaly

The Van Allen Radiation Belt is an area of ​​energetic charged particles in the planet’s magnetic field, and on Earth it is closest to Brazil in the Atlantic Ocean.

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South Atlantic Anomaly

In June 2009, the Air France Airbus 330 disappeared from radar during the Rio de Janeiro-Paris flight. The cause of the crash of Air France flight 447 has been attributed to high energy. More than 200 people died in the air tragedy.

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american national parks

US national parks cover an area of ​​more than 84 million acres of land. A vast expanse to explore…

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The problem is that more than a thousand people have disappeared from the area without a trace since the National Park Service began operations in 1916, according to Culture Trip.

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Highway 16, Canada

In the Canadian region of British Columbia, a spooky road hides stories of missing young women.

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Highway 16, Canada

The first recorded disappearance was that of a girl named Monica Ingas, in 1975. Since then, 17 other young women have never been found along the road, known as the “Highway of Tears”.

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Roanoke Colony, USA

Also known as the “Lost Colony”, Roanoke was a 16th century English colony that was the scene of one of the first enigmatic disappearances on record.

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Roanoke Colony, USA

When the governor of the colony returned from a three-year trip from England to get more supplies, the whole place had been abandoned. Strange, right?

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Angikuni Lake, Canada

The lake is located in the Kivalliq region of Nunavut, in northern Canada. In 1930, a man found himself in a nearby desert town.

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Angikuni Lake, Canada

The weird part is that there were still jars of food in the place, which had been the focus of fires. The impression that one has is that tasks have been left in the middle of the path. Nobody knew where the people went and why exactly they left.

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Devil’s Sea, Japan

The Devil’s Sea, also known as the Dragon’s Triangle, is famous worldwide for several incidents in which ships disappeared for no apparent reason.

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Devil’s Sea, Japan

Once, in 1952, the Japanese government even sent a team of 30 people to investigate what was going on, but they too fell victim to the treacherous waters of the Devil’s Sea.

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Suvla Bay, Türkiye

During World War I, a strange event happened in Suvla Bay, located on the Aegean coast of Turkey’s Gallipoli Peninsula.

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Suvla Bay, Türkiye

When a strange cloud enveloped a hill, a whole battalion of English soldiers entered it – to disappear… The Turks have no record of the capture of these soldiers. Where have these men gone?

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Mesa Verde, United States

Complex dwellings, supposedly built by an ancient tribe thousands of years ago, have been carved into the Rocky Mountains.

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